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Choosing your Immigration Representative

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Often are investors perplexed when the decision to embark on an immigration process is to be made. The muddle lies in the selection of the right person or firm to represent the interests. The Abundance of firms, companies, sole practitioners, make the selection decision more and more challenging. This paper will help you make the right choice
 

Arm Yourself with Knowledge

A better understanding of:
 

  • Immigration practitioners’ incentives and gains is critical.
  • Moreover an understanding of the immigration programme sought is also essential as this knowledge would aid the investor in assessing if his representative is competently performing their duties.

Immigration practitioners who are involved in the business immigration realm, over and above their so called “Legal fees”, often make substantial profits in referral fees, commissions and kick-backs when promoting an asset to an immigrant-investor. Gains made by an immigration practitioner are not necessarily wrong or inappropriate so long as the investor is informed, and more importantly, so long as those gains do not affect the actual value of the assets being pursued.

High profile firms usually charge more in legal fees, which is not a bad or a good thing, but they would not make undisclosed gains of the assets being pursued for a business immigration programme.

Large firms who have immigration as one of their lines of products and services, may not necessarily reflect the same performance they offer for their core practice, for which they have gained their reputation, on their Immigration practice.

A firm that is infamous for tax and audit, and has decided to embark on immigration practice, might not necessarily offer the same powerful practice, they do for their core business, to their, recently enacted, immigration practice.  

Knowing more about the conditions of the programme an investor is seeking, would create an automatic radar for suspicious actions on the part of his/her representative.

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